Sentences with phrase «controlling ice flux»
Stable grounding lines can not be established on these reverse bed slopes1, because ice thickness is a key factor in controlling ice flux across the grounding line.
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Geothermal heat flux is an important factor in controlling basal ice temperatures, and subglacial volcanoes regularly cause localised melting in ice sheets.
The presence of summer sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean — despite the elevated air temperatures14, 15, 64 — may have resulted from a reduced total oceanic heat flux towards the north, as suggested from (compared to the PI control runs) reduced AMOC patterns during LIG - 130 and LIG - 125 (Fig. 4).